Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg to include India's FAR bonds in EM local currency govt index

The index would encompass 34 Indian securities and represent 7.26% of a $6.18 trillion index on a market value-weighted basis

Updated On: 05 Mar 2024 | 3:45 PM IST

Bloomberg LP names product head Vlad Kliatchko as new CEO: Report

JP Zammitt will become president and Patti Roskill will be the chief financial officer, the memo said, adding that the company will form a new board

Updated On: 21 Aug 2023 | 11:50 PM IST

Media mogul Bloomberg likely to buy Dow Jones or Washington Post: Report

Axios said Bloomberg would be interested in a potential acquisition of either companies, but Dow Jones would be a stronger target

Updated On: 23 Dec 2022 | 11:56 PM IST

Gates and Bezos-backed firm to pay $15 mn to hunt metals for EVs

KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Ray Dalio, has entered into a joint venture with London-based mining firm Bluejay

Updated On: 12 Aug 2021 | 9:05 PM IST

25 richest Americans paid little to nothing in federal income taxes: Report

Billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and George Soros benefit from a complex web of loopholes in tax code.

Updated On: 09 Jun 2021 | 9:08 AM IST

Bloomberg to spend at least $100 mn to help Joe Biden's campaign in Florida

The billionaire Bloomberg launched his own campaign for the Democratic nomination late last year amid worries about Biden's strengths

Updated On: 13 Sep 2020 | 7:45 PM IST

Twitter hack hits Obama, Biden, Musk in Bitcoin scam; stock sinks

Others whose Twitter accounts were caught up in the security incident included Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Uber Technologies Inc, Apple, and Michael Bloomberg

Updated On: 17 Jul 2020 | 2:14 AM IST

Mike Bloomberg exits US elections after primaries rout, endorses Biden

Bloomberg's only victory on Tuesday came in the US territory of American Samoa

Updated On: 05 Mar 2020 | 3:19 AM IST

Twitter suspends 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts in US for breaking rules

Twitter prohibits sending identical tweets from multiple accounts, as is often the case with spam

Updated On: 22 Feb 2020 | 7:49 PM IST

India bigger problem than China in climate change fight, says Bloomberg

The billionaire and philanthropist, who announced his presidential run only this year, asserted that the US was making a difference

Updated On: 20 Feb 2020 | 3:56 PM IST

Bloomberg cannot generate 'energy, excitement' needed to win polls: Sanders

Bernie Sanders was critical of Bloomberg's stances on minimum wage laws, policing, taxing the rich and regulating Wall Street

Updated On: 16 Feb 2020 | 2:32 PM IST

US elections: Facebook says political candidates can use sponsored memes

Each piece of sponsored political content must use Facebook's branded content tool, which states at the top of the post that the creator was paid for it and by whom

Updated On: 15 Feb 2020 | 11:31 PM IST

From Bloomberg to Blankfein, rich men are learning to tweet like Trump

Bloomberg is, among other things, competing with Trump on his own terms on social media - and has spent no shortage of money in doing so

Updated On: 15 Feb 2020 | 10:55 PM IST

Year in Review: How world's top 10 business personalities fared in 2019

The year 2019, a breakthrough year for business, saw both fortunes being built and destroyed. Business Standard lists top 10 business personalities from across the globe who made headlines in 2019

Updated On: 16 Jan 2020 | 8:54 PM IST

Trump campaign bars Bloomberg News journalists from events, alleges bias

The media group said it would not investigate Bloomberg's family or foundations, nor his Democratic rivals, but would publish or summarize investigative pieces on all Democratic candidates.

Updated On: 09 Dec 2019 | 9:39 PM IST

US 2020 election: Bloomberg bashes Trump's policies, backs immigrants

Arizona has received scant attention form the Democrats running for president, but Bloomberg has put a heavy focus in a state he said will be crucial to the general election.

Updated On: 27 Nov 2019 | 8:15 AM IST

Michael Bloomberg formally announces US presidential candidacy

"I'm running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America," Bloomberg, 77, said on his web page as a USD 30 million Bloomberg ad campaign hit US airwaves

Updated On: 24 Nov 2019 | 10:01 PM IST

Bloomberg vows to refuse political donations, presidential salary

He has never taken a political contribution in his life. He is not about to start, Bloomberg chief adviser Howard Wolfson said in an interview on Saturday. He cannot be bought.

Updated On: 24 Nov 2019 | 9:01 AM IST

2020 US election: Likely candidate Bloomberg buys TV ads worth $31 mn

Bloomberg, who ran New York from 2002 to 2013, registered on Thursday with the US Federal Election Commission -- another step towards a run at the White House.

Updated On: 23 Nov 2019 | 3:28 PM IST

Bloomberg registers with US Election Commission for 2020 presidential run

The 77-year-old former mayor of New York filed paperwork to register a committee called "Mike Bloomberg 2020," commission spokeswoman Judith Ingram confirmed to AFP

Updated On: 22 Nov 2019 | 9:13 AM IST